Quote from: wetbanana on April 17, 2010, 12:54:52 AM
hey guys a I will have a new system within a month
specs on what i am getting
Commercial in confidence
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 3.2GHz , 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3
Cache Socket AM3 125W Black Edition (would you recommend this)
Motherboard: Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD770 5200MT 4DDR3 PCI-E 2.0 SATA2
Gigabit LAN 3x1394a ATX
Memory: 8GB (4X2GB) Strontium Hynix 2GB 1333MHZ DDR3 PC10660
(may add 12gb still undecided)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Carviar SE 3.5 500GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB Cache (with additional 320gb of storage from my old pc)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 331 Black 420W peak PSU Mid Tower Case
Video Card: XFX GT-240X-ZNFA Geforce GT 240 1GB 128mb-bit GDDR3 PCI-Express 2.0
x16 Native HDMI 40nm DX 10.1
Final Price: $1065.78+GST
GST: $133.22
Total: $1199.00 (Direct Deposit Price)
$849.492 USD
Does this sound like a good setup guys like to here your feedback!
PSU, what is the PSU ?
I would invest a little bit more on a good quality PSU. Mine is Silverstone, with 750 Watt rating.
The RAM price is going up by the day, and if you want to have 12GB of RAM, go for it now because by June the price will go up by at least another 20%.
I would forgo the 500GB HD for the moment since price for HD isn't going up, and could even go down since many people are crazy with SSD right now.
If I were you I will get a solid PSU and as much RAM as I possibly could afford right now, and then 6 months or one year down the road I will upgrade the rig with a 2TB HD. On GPU I would rather having ATI, much cheaper than the one offered by Nvidia.
Quote from: wetbanana on April 17, 2010, 01:10:45 AM
or is it worth upgrading the cpu to this?
http://www.elive.co.nz/intel-core-i7-920-cpu-sy2114.php
i7 920 costs about USD100 more than AMD Phenom 955. If I were you I would rather use that money to up my RAM because i7 920 doesn't run that much faster than the Phenom 955.
I am assuming you do not OC your processor.